And cleaning and fixing up SGI community centers, including several historic buildings while the SGI and their leaders get rich on these real estate holdings, what do you call that? A sane person would call that greed.
Oh, the SGI implies that all that richness is, actually, the members' own! -- Blanche
On a more serious note, it is said a true friend will harbor a fugitive at the cost of his or her's life. For example, the many wonderful disciples and friends of the Daishonin who sheltered him from the brutal Shogun. The SGI, on the other hand, abandons their own, sitting on riches beyond imagination. They might counter that they sheltered many people after the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami but this was for public relations and converting the faithless with no personal risk or loss for themselves. Certainly a few thousand blankets and rolls of toilet paper is as if nothing to the mega SGI religious corporation. A homeless women with three young children in tow and already converted has no value to the organization and will be abandoned as surely as an orange peel after the juice is squeezed.
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